Mona Yacoubian is a senior advisor and director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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Mona Yacoubian
Five seemingly teenagers lean out of the open sunroof and windows of a car, several of them flashing peace signs with their hands. The oldest girl wears a hijab while another has her hair loose; one of the youngest boys is shirtless. Two adults are visible through the windshield in the front seat of the car.
A Lebanese army convoy heads to an abandoned tunnel said to have been used by Hezbollah outside the southern village of Zibqin, Lebanon during a press tour on November 28.
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN-OCTOBER 31: USAID blankets being distributed by Mercy Corps are about to be loaded onto trucks at Chaklala airport October 31,2005 in Rawalpindi, Islamabad surrounded by relief goods waiting to be distributed. The current death toll is now believed to be over 55,000 from the South Asian earthquake that happened over 3 weeks ago. Over 3 million people are still without proper shelter and aid organizations including the U.N are warning that thousands could die in remote mountainous regions as Winter approaches. Atleast 1,400 died in Indian-Kashmir.
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